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Rainbow on the Plains festival celebrates LGBTQ+ pride with colour, a parade and Australia’s largest human rainbow

Disenchanted with Australia in the 1890s, 500 people travelled to Paraguay in search of a better life, inspired by a radical socialist. But their plans for a tropical utopia, with strict rules about booze and sex, were "bound to fail".

The very last Aboriginal Australians to live as hunter-gatherers emerged from the Western Desert in the mid-1980s. David Scrimgeour was the first doctor to check their health.

Authorities have declared week one of schoolies a success, but revellers headed to the region from Victoria and NSW have been warned a "robust" police response awaits them.

Emma Flukes cycles a 1,800-kilometre all-terrain route across Tasmania despite an autoimmune disorder and fatigued neck muscles that left her devising a pulley system to keep her head upright.

A new version of Gurrumul Yunupingu's song Bayini is showcasing the deep history between groups of Indigenous Australians and Indonesian fishers, while helping to revive connections between the two cultures.

Since August an Aboriginal flag has flown outside the Yass Memorial Hall, but some said the decision was made without due process. Now, months after the flag was raised, a decision has been made to keep it there.

Was this spring good for you? Maybe there was no terrifying flap of wings like last spring?

It's likely to be wetter than usual along Australia's east coast.

Heading to Sydney for WorldPride next year but don’t know where to start? Here’s what to see at the LGBTQ+ extravaganza’s first outing in the southern hemisphere

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